On New Years’ Day, 1812, the diarist arrives in Liverpool after a thirty-one day sail from New York City on the sloop Orbit. Upon arriving...
1853–1856 copy book kept by Quaker girls Hannah Darlington and Sarah M. Darlington of Parkerville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The copy book collects poems and calligraphic...
Memoir of the first American abolition society; scarce to commerce and with no auction records found over the last thirty years. The compiler, Quaker Edward.....
Krichmar 1526: “From their diaries; concerning the woman suffrage movement in Rhode Island and of education in the early 19th century.” Schneider & Schneider (writing.....
Upon the death of Dr. John D. Godman, the Quakers of Philadelphia memorialized him as a Christian philosopher. Godman was remembered as a naturalist, encyclopedist...
Doctoral dissertation by Philadelphia physician and surgeon Joseph Parrish (1779–1840), submitted to the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Parrish here investigates...
Colonial Philadelphia manuscript document in which a slow-paying customer finally pays in 1771 for tailoring done in the years 1766–1767. Making a pair of “bretches”;.....
Letter from Philadelphia reformer Roberts Vaux (1786–1836) touching on two concerns: education and temperance. Vaux writes briefly here “to the President, and Members, of the.....
This address exhorts fellow Quakers to righteously oppose slavery; to avoid using products derived from slave labor; to attend to the moral and education uplifting...
A handsome example. Graff: “Battey’s experiences were among the Kiowas, principally, but he was also associated with Comanches, Apaches, Caddoes, and Kickapoos.” Boston: Lee and.....
Written in an elegant hand, a bill recording the sale of one “Tennant Saw”, six mill saw files, six hand saws, 1,000 3oz and 5oz.....
William P. Cresson Co. of Philadelphia was actively engaged in the hardware commission business in the 1830’s and 1840’s. The company offered a variety of.....
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